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IRC with irssi

I've been using, for several years, an irssi config that I built based on much work by carina.org.uk, it just works for my usage which is inside screen(1) on a server somewhere. Here is a redacted version that connects to 2 IRC networks, freenode and perl.org, identifying and autojoining a couple of channels (one of which is "fake"), sets up some aliases, a highlight and a statusbar.

To make it your own, search for TODO and change to your own nick and your own password, respectively and then change the values in the channels and windows
sections so that you get windows for and join channels that you want.

jtrucks, a freenode staffer amongst other awesomeness, posted the following snippet. The basic idea is that you create windows, join channels, message people and then run this and it will save everything for you so you can recreate it at will: